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From: perry@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Perry Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Comparison of HP and Sun
Message-ID: <5570658@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Jun 91 17:21:48 GMT
References: <1991Jun4.164957.10585@hellgate.utah.edu>
Organization: HP Fort Collins, Co.
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>..., and Sun is better than HP for I/O.

I'd have to question this assumption.  The 730 is not your grandfather's
HP.  The rumor I've heard that the 720 performs very well against SS2 in
the SAS demo, somewhere >2X.  Your HP Rep should have the real
information.  If he doesn't, he should call the factory.

The LAN traffic generated by X fairly minimal when compared to other LAN
operations.  Your mileage may vary, but X has never been a LAN hog on my
cable.  Booting 720 diskless off another 720 is 5 seconds of hell.


>My boss would like a good level of cooperation within the department, and it
>seems that buying Sun would do that.

It is true that ((HP-UX != SunOS) && (HP-UX != BSD)).  You have to weigh
the disadvantages of being multilingual against the performance advantage
of the 730.

Perry Scott
HP Ft Collins

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